Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Garraun North, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraun North
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61437, -8.37048
- SMR number
- RO038-037----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight rise in a low-lying landscape. Rectangular grass-covered platform (dims 41m NE-SW; 33.7m NW-SE) defined by slight banks (Wth 3.3-4.2m; int. H 0.35-0.55m; ext. H 0.9-1.3m) on the NW and SE sides and overgrown, flat-bottomed moats (at NE: Wth of top 11.6m; Wth of base 7m; D 0.55m) on all sides except the SE. There is an overgrown outer bank (at NE: Wth 7m; H 0.65m), or the remnants of one, on all sides except the SE. There is no identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29th September, 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cross - Churchyard crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.